Where You Once Belonged
23 May 2013Imprint: Picador
Synopsis
Set in a fictional Colorado town, Kent Haruf's Where You Once Belonged brings to life small town America and the characters that keep the community together.
Heavy-built Jack Burdette is quite literally too big for his boots – and too big, certainly, for the small-town attitudes of Holt, Colorado. But when he fails to make the grade as a college footballer,...
Details
23 May 2013192 pages
9781447250685Imprint: Picador
Reviews
Haruf ’s heroes are small people weighed down with big hearts . . .He manages to find magic in the minutiae of ordinary lives.Mariella Frostrup on Plainsong, Mail on Sunday
Haruf ’s deceptively artless prose and unsentimental tales are driven by individuals, not incidents, as they choose between decency and cowardice, degradation and rectitude.Praise for The Tie That Binds, Times Literary Supplement
Haruf is one of the finest novelists at work today.Time Out
